Posted on 07/09/2012 7:04:08 AM PDT by madison10
This health care/tax and the upcoming election is depressing me and I'm longing for another time and place: I'm thinking 1997--I do not want to be a child again, nor do I want to relive other, rather awful, portions of life. Being 38 years old was good, I had a good job, my husband still had 20 years to work, we only had two dogs, there was still hope. See what I mean?
Where would you like to go and why? Doesn't have to be personal history, could be history in general.
LOL
True...
“In 1962 we had to deal with the Soviet Union who was installing SS-4 IRBMs in Cuba. It was a dangerous time.”
Precisely. I want to see the US when it was a strong country capable and willing to meet any threat, all the way to nuclear war. I also want to see the US when people could leave their doors unlocked, etc. Like I said, I want to see the US at its height- not in decline as it has been in my lifetime.
1957 ,,,, post Korea ,, economy looking good ,, rock and roll a big hit , 57 chevy , pre-Kennedy/Johnson , America is #1 producer in the world .
Is it normal to have so many childhood friends die before they reach retirement age? We had four kids from our church die before they reached 21. This last death hit me pretty hard because we knew her so well for so many years and last year when I was home, we were talking about the fact that so many of the kids had died and another one had just been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Is it normal to have so many childhood friends die before they reach retirement age? We had four kids from our church die before they reached 21. This last death hit me pretty hard because we knew her so well for so many years and last year when I was home, we were talking about the fact that so many of the kids had died and another one had just been diagnosed with breast cancer.
I agree with you. 1976 was a great time, especially the summer for the 20 year-old kid I was.
‘’Is it normal to have so many childhood friends die before the reach retirement age’’.< Ordinarily no but it depends on the circumstances. I’ve given up on the number of old classmates and childhood friends I’ve lost in the last twenty years, most were barley in their fifties. A lot were from stupid choices like drugs and booze. Sad to think of the lives wasted and the potential lost.
my generation passing in late 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Grandparents late 80’s, uncles and aunts—some hit 90 and 95.
I think it strange that those who fried food in lard and ate tons of butter far outlived those who didn’t.
1905. Vienna.
I would act out the cliche and stalk and kill Hitler then return to see what difference it made.
(Despite the fact that my parents probably never would have met, I believe I would still survive as an “orphaned artifact of a now non-existent time-line”. And despite the fact that no other human but me would know whether or not I had made a difference in world history, I would still like to give this a try.)
Probably a Soviet-dominated Europe.
Possibly. But remember, only I would remember the time-line where Hitler had lived and caused WWII. None of the rest of you would even know what I had done. And if I tried to tell you, you’d lock me up in a looney bin.
Odds are, if it wasn’t for the Nazis, it would have been Thaelmann and the Communists that would have destroyed the Weimar Republic, and imposed their own dictatorship over Germany.
That’s exactly what I meant. My friend who died last week of lymphoma, had just buried her own mother a year ago and she was 93, Fran died at 62.
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